Quotes About Evolution

History's kaleidoscope worked its permutations, its pace ever faster, approaching some unknown crescendo.

Sustainability is never a static goal. It can only be a process.

It's an old story," Ryumin said. "Something like that actually happened once; I feel sure of it. But I filed off the serial numbers and made it my own.

We spend much of the first half of our lives trying to build internal models that fit the world and much of the last half of our lives trying to adjust the world so it fits the inner models.

After we passed a few more houses, the street ceased to mantain any pretense of urbanity, like a man returning to his little village who, piece by piece, strips off his Sunday best, slowly changing back into a peasant as he gets closer to his home.

It was difficult to anticipate—in these monsters with enormous, fantastic beaks which they opened wide immediately after birth, hissing greedily to show the backs of their throats, in these lizards with frail, naked bodies of hunchbacks—the future peacocks, pheasants, grouse or condors. Placed in cotton wool, in baskets, this dragon brood lifted blind, walleyed heads on thin necks, croaking voicelessly from their dumb throats.

The minute you establish an organization, it starts to decay.

He who's not busy being born is busy dying." Tony

Planning, gentlemen, is 'What are you going to do next year that's different from what you did this year?'" he told them. "All I want is five items.

Although it may be disconcerting to find that something you have believed is mistaken, it is at the same time thrilling, because it opens up new worlds of re-evaluation and fresh thinking, new understanding and insight.

We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related.Each gene can trace its own journey to a different common ancestor.This is a quite extraordinary legacy that we all have inherited from the people who lived before us.Our genes did not just appear when we were born.They have been carried to us by millions of individual lives over thousands of generations.

DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.

Ironically, although the Y-chromosome has become synonymous with male aggression, it is intrinsically unstable. Adam is as much cursed as cursing.

published in 2001, concentrates on tracing our ancestry using the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA, which also features heavily in The Nature of the Beast. Other books focus on the paternally inherited Y-chromosome and the evolution of sex (Adam's Curse, 2003), on genealogy and the genetic history of Britain and Ireland (Blood of the Isles, 2006) and America (DNA USA, 2012).

The Nature of the Beast. I have always been curious about other human species

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

Changing yourself changes everything.

Command the space of your beingness – a space where you are allowed to grow into your true, unique nature.

I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing—a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process—an integral function of the universe.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

They looked at each other until they weren't acquaintances any longer.